U.N. Hypocrisy on a Climate Report

June 1, 2016

To the Editor:

Re “Australia Gets Some Bad News Cut From U.N. Study” (news article, May 28): The United Nations should be ashamed over succumbing to pressure from Australia to delete a chapter from a United Nations report on climate change reporting that the Great Barrier Reef is dying. Better informed citizens could only help in saving a world treasure like the coral reefs.

This outweighs the profits reaped by Australian companies from delayed notice of the destruction of the reefs. What message does such omission send to the world? This is a glaring example of United Nations hypocrisy.

Why bother having yearly meetings on climate change if the devastating consequences on the coral reefs are swept under the rug?